Machine Sharing in Manufacturing Systems: Total Flexibility versus Chaining

Principles on the Benefits of Manufacturing Process Flexibility

William Chester Jordan, Stephen C. Graves · Management Science · 1995 · 853 citations · Full text

Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management +17

Resource Sharing for Efficiency in Traffic Systems

D. R. Smith, Ward Whitt · Bell System Technical Journal · 1981 · 181 citations

Business, Systems Engineering, Computer Networks +16

The Optimality of Unbalancing Both Workloads and Machine Group Sizes in Closed Queueing Networks of Multiserver Queues

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Business, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering +17

On the Optimal Allocation of Servers and Workloads in Closed Queueing Networks

Yves Dallery, Kathryn E. Stecke · Operations Research · 1990 · 72 citations

Business, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering +17

Performance bounds for the effectiveness of pooling in multi-processing systems

Saifallah Benjaafar · European Journal of Operational Research · 1995 · 65 citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +9